Monterey County has a rich and colorful history. The Monterey County Herald has been there to cover the names and places that make our county unique. With some “never seen before” images from our archives, The Herald hopes to jar your memory and to participate in this ongoing look back on the history of Monterey County.

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Friday, June 21, 2013

Monterey Peninsula College student Alena Coogan presents a bare "canvas" for the first strategic brush stroke, which quickly expands into a sunburst as music to paint by becomes music to dance by on October 7, 1970. (Monterey County Herald Archives)

The local rock group Transatlantic Train performs in the ampphitheater at Monterey Peninsula College on October 6, 1970 to focus attention on a project to install a FM radio station at the college. The benefit was hoping to raise $10,000. (Monterey County Herald Archives)

Bob Beccli, organist in the local group Transatlantic Train, perform at Monterey Peninsula College on October 6, 1970 to focus attention on a project to install a FM radio station at the college. The benefit was hoping to raise $10,000. (Monterey County Herald Archives)

Friday, June 14, 2013

People watch as a Pan Am Boeing 747
cruises past the Monterey Peninsula Airport in December of 1970. The Boeing 747 was introduced to
commercial flight in January of 1970.The Boeing 747 is a wide-body commercial airliner and cargo transport
aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of
the Skies. It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft and was the first
wide-body ever produced. Manufactured by Boeing's Commercial Airplane unit in
the United States, the original version of the 747 was two and a half times the
size of the Boeing 707.(Monterey
County Herald Archives)

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Carmel mayor candidate Clint Eastwood holds a press conference on Election Day at the La Playa Hotel in Carmel on April 8, 1986. Eastwood won the election over the incumbent mayor, Charlotte Townsend, who was then approaching the end of her second term. (Robert Fish/Monterey County Herald)